*CLOSED* RRRR Contest - $240 in GC prizes!!

For all who have no clue what the RRRR is, it stands for "Random Runtime Roulette Renders".
It's a competition organized by B.W.C (Bald Wizards Club) that has been running in the members forum for a while, but we decided to bring it to prime time here in the Commons.

Who can play?
Anyone who can read this can play!

How do you prepare yourself for play?
The rules are very simple, but first you need to have all your items in some kind of order in a textfile, dumped from the itemized history into a text file or a spread sheet. Remove things like software, giftcerts, and special plugins from the list.
Then you use a randomizer to randomly pick 4 items from your list (your Runtime).

There are some situations where you allowed to redraw, these are:
- You picked something that doesn’t work, broken thing, only works in a version / software not used etc etc.
- You picked a software or add-on to a software or anything you should have filtered out from the list.
- You picked only huge environment props and will not be able to render a scene without crashing.
- You picked an item you already have been using in two RRRR renders in this content and that was picked randomly. Three is a curse - rule!

Bundles
If you pull a bundle, use two three complete items from it, or more if you like, but you do not need to use all, but only picking a hairpin from V4 Complete Bundle is “too little”. Clarification: A bundle still counts as only one pulled item.

The rules of madness!
Now you have successfully picked 4 items, make a scene, you can add other items as well but the one you picked should be prominent or cleverly used. Render it, post it and make us all laugh! Remember though that the renders must follow the TOS of the forum.

The contest categories!
There are two categories, funniest and best, you get it. A fun render might maybe not be a super great render but tells a fun story it will place whatever the viewer just put in the mouth on the screen and keyboard.

Contest duration!
It stats now, and will go on until Sunday November 18 23:59:59 DAZ local time.

Yes, we have prizes, thanks to our sponsors!

This months sponsors so far: Ken OBanion has put in $100 in DAZ GCsBohemian3 has put in $30 in DAZ CGsbelovedalia has put in $10 in DAZ GCsJaderail has put in $20 in DAZ GCsBarbult has put in $20 in DAZ GCsMicky_3D has put in $20 in DAZ GCsLuci45 has put in $20 in DAZ GCsARTCollaborations has put in $20 in DAZ GCs

I myself will add three items of my creation to the prize pot, and maybe add one more if I get it done in time. The items are B.W.C Country Road, B.W.C Guillotine and 80s Punk for Genesis, see pictures below.

I hope we can attract some more sponsors. Sponsors may or may not participate in the contest, their own decision, I won’t lock anyone out just because they are generous to sponsor this. If you want to sponsor, send me a PM or post in the thread!

More to know?
I will might edit this when new info on sponsors arrive.

Maximum number of entries?
Yes, this time we limit the number of entries per person to seven.

Are you ready to render? 3….2….1…..go!

One more thing...
As many of you cannot see the previous RRRR, I decided to post winners from last contest so you can an idea if what it is about?

The winners in the Best category are:
First place: #39 Crown Prince Edwin returns from a long summer vacation to find the beaver population in an uproar over the kingdom’s encroachment on their habitat by Luci45
Second place: #29 I wish I were young again by Barbult
Third place: #22 During my summer vacation I crossed the ocean with my best friend to fight the devil for a bottle of wine by Azoohouse

The winners in the Funniest category are:
First place: #30 I had some dental work done during my summer vacation by Azoohouse
Second place: #38 Lost in translation by totte
Third place: #16 The House Sitters by Luci 45

Attached the collages with the winners for you to view.

EDIT: Important note!
To make voting easier, all entry posts should have a tag with TAG:#, then voting can just point to that. See my first post (TAG:Totte#1) for a hint on how. You can just edit you post to add that.

This contest really stretches your imagination and pushes you to learn more and more about how amazing and powerful DAZ is. There’s nothing more fun that trying to take four random objects that don’t seem to go together and make them work in a scene.

Here are a few tips for anyone who has not tried an RRRR contest before. (The teacher in me coming out.)

1) Check out your material settings – You can combine products in hundreds of different ways by making different parts of an object transparent. Check out your surfaces tab The skies the limit!

2) Use shaders to recolor your objects using the surfaces tab. This helps to make the pants from one object match the shirt from another!

3) When you have lots of elements in a scene it may be helpful to render them in different passes, (for example your background elements first, then your foreground) You can combine them in “Postwork” using layers in Gimp or Photoshop. That gives you more options as well to manipulate different parts of your scene. Again a great time to push your limits and learn new things.

These are a few tips. I’ll add more and invite other RRRR veterans to add there’s as well.

Well, I thought I'd give this a go, jut because I've been having a hard time motivating myself to play with my 3D stuff after some crushing disappointments lately (a certain Toon Cow turned out to be DS4.5 ONLY!!) (I can't get that program to install on my system, and was extremely disappointed in the interface when I installed it on a work computer - so much so that I could not even use the program!) (But that's another story!).

I had the itemized order history already, so went to random.org and got my 4 numbers. They were: (Insert Drum Roll Here)

74 Bulldozer
179 Fairy Garden
510 Toonimal Bat
361 Ollie

(Insert Cymbal Crash Here)

The spread of characters, props, and environment was Perfect!

Several scenes immediately came to mind, so I'll play around and post something.

I'm shocked no Bovine Items appeared in this list though... Could be because many were free or from outside sources, thus not in my order history. I may force a Cow into the scene anyhow. After all, a Bulldozer needs a Cowdozer to make it's life complete!

So three architectural elements and a Character. This is the first time I have ever done a render with a random collection of items. We'll see what I can do with these.

(BTW, I have a large list of products so I used a random number generator online to select 4 numbers and then looked up the corresponding number on my alphabetized list of DAZ products only. I did not have to redraw any numbers as none landed on software, GC, or plugins.)

Used Hunter's Moon for the backdrop and ground, Fog Tool 3 for the ground fog, and the shackles on her wrists and ankle are from Shackles of the Inquisition. The shaders were a bit tougher, but there were some fabrics in there; used the pink camo for her shirt, then applied various metals to this guy: http://www.daz3d.com/shop/rock-golem keeping only his glowy runes, and reducing his size to 75% to fit him in the scene.

Hi Totte,
great game, I'm in! just one question? Do I have to use the same four items I drew from the Randomizer in all 7 renders or do I draw a new lot of number for each new render? I hope my question makes sense, it's well past my bedtime. :-)

Two figures (spider, dragon), a set of skins for a third figure (battleworn for BEO2k10), and a set of weapons that none of those three figures would ordinarily use... Minimum three figures for this one, possibly a 4th. We'll see!